Livable Life
http://explore.noodle.com/post/109142092438/to-make-our-life-livable-we-have-to-have-spaces…
Music Recalled
Anne Porter's Music was the selection the other day at The Writer's Almanac [http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20150123/]. > When I was a child I once sat sobbing on the floor Beside my mother’s piano As she played and sang For there was in her…
Add to Calendar
> Happy #NationalHandwritingDay [https://twitter.com/hashtag/NationalHandwritingDay?src=hash] !! pic.twitter.com/XyXrZxcOmx [http://t.co/XyXrZxcOmx] — Archie Camps (@thebookmania) January 23, 2015 [https://twitter.com/thebookmania/status/558631638305755136]…
Wisdom from Einstein
> The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library — Albert Einstein There's no context given for this at Brief Quotes [http://briefquotes.tumblr.com/post/108793976522/the-only-thing-that-you-absolutely-have-to-know] , but it's a lovely thought. Apart from all that math and physics…
Predating the Beatles
Whitman makes his case boldly and enthusiastically in the first three lines of Song of Myself > I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. As familiar as these lines are, it took a…
Making it Matter
http://explore.noodle.com/post/108653613778/adult-is-nothing-more-than-an-empty-form-what http://explore.noodle.com/post/108645395668/this-stopped-my-breath-mary-oliver-on-what…
Constructive Boredom
The lock screen on my iPhone is an Austin Kleon drawing with the motto Read a Book Instead, and I take care not to spend too much time on my devices. New Tech City is issuing a call for communal action just to take some time away from the phone…
Life well spent
http://oupacademic.tumblr.com/post/108248609539reminded me of this from Seneca's On the Shortness of Life [http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/05/resolutions/]. > It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough,…